very nice work, that nut you made defentaly improved the machine strenth... but you want some back lash, even some of the best lathes (mori, hardinge) are back lash machines. It ultimately is a screw. (the screw out of your machine dose not have the acme screw look, most cheap machines have a more traditional screw type thread rather than a acme type making back lash even more important. you don't want pressure on you screw)
It looks like a lot of time and too many holes in a line making the casting weak these are cheap lathes i have had one for over ten years the motor stopped working and the control box burned out it has a 3/4 hp motor on it now i also have a myford that i do nothing to it it cuts better looks better needs no time only a bit of cleaning and will still be turning when i am not the mini lathe is good at getting people into turning
Bit late to the party, but I thought I should say that whilst this is a great video (I've subbed on the basis of this) and the content creator shows some great ideas, the way they hold milling cutters in the lathe chuck is a definite no-no. If you want to use the lathe as a mill (and if you don't have a mill, you should definitely give it a go; affordable benchtop mills are a relatively recent innovation and model engineers have been using their lathes as very workable makeshift mills for a long while), you should use a collet chuck. ER32 is a good choice; there are lots of reasonably priced ER32 collet chucks available for mini lathes. The reason for this is that milling cutters have hardened shanks, and lathe chucks have hardened jaws and so the jaws can't really grip the cutters shank sufficiently well. That lack of grip will, sooner or later, lead to the cutter slipping in the chuck jaws. You probably can get away with it for very light cuts but sooner or later it will probably bite you in the rear. At best you'll damage your cutter's shank, or the workpiece or both. At worst, because milling cutters tend to grab at the material, the tool could slip out of the jaws completely and end up damaging you! The only safe use of a milling cutter held in a lathe's chuck (ot a Jacobs style chuck too, for that matter), if you absolutely don't have a choice, is using what is known as a 'slot drill' to either flatten the cone out of a blind hole drilled with a twist drill, or to make the flat bottomed blind hole in the first place. That's okay as the force back towards the chuck will prevent the cutter from ever pulling out. tl;dr: don't put milling cutters in lathe chuck jaws, get a reasonably priced ER collet chuck and a few collets in sizes you're most likely to use. 😉
No commentary makes this somewhat of a mystery to newbies, especially those who are looking to buy a cheaper lathe. So why not give a little explanation instead of the boring music.
If you're a beginner, looking for information to help them buy a cheaper lathe, then this video isn't about that at all. Even if you have just bought a lathe, this isn't a complete beginner's project. Do you watch a video on TIG welding techniques and complain that the video does show you how to buy a cheap fluxcore-only welder? Oh...yeah, you probably do. Nevermind. 😂
This is way off topic and probably not something anyone watching this would know but, this beat is from a really old rap song called Burbons and Lacs from Master P.. 1997
I would like to have electricity as my furnace fuel but I'm not confident that I could get the element right.. However I will definitely be using many of the other ideas shown in the brilliant build.
Esistono affilatori cfe con una passata fanno tutto costano poco e sono gia pronti .....oppure le pietre giapponesi sono spettacolari gia pronte.... non capisco perche perdere tutto questo tempo a fare quel marchingegno 🤔🤔🤔🤔
The use of deep groove bearings for axial loads in spindle is nothing but scam. All cheap Chinese ball screw supporting blocks come with deep groove bearings instead of dupIex pairs. I also encounter deep groove bearings in Sieg's spindles for several times. OPTIMUM machine came with roller bearings though so nothing to complaint about that.
